Species that contain: Careproctus and acanthodes [ 1 ] records

acanthodes, Careproctus Gilbert [C. H.] & Burke [C. V.] 1912:363, Pl. 43 (fig. 3); Fig. 4 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 42 (no. 1907); ref. 1633] Tatar Strait off southwestern coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia, Albatross station 4997, 47°38'40"N, 141°24'30"E, depth 581 meters. Holotype: USNM 73332. Paratypes: CAS-SU 22236 (4). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:135 [ref. 12291]. •Synonym of Careproctus rastrinus Gilbert & Burke 1912 -- (Kido 1988:217 [ref. 12287], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:32 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:611 [ref. 25968]). •Valid as Careproctus acanthodes Gilbert & Burke 1912 -- (Kido in Masuda et al. 1984:339 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:441 [ref. 15964], Pitruk 1990:36 [ref. 20303], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:11 [ref. 24670], Chernova et al. 2004:4 [ref. 27592], see Kai et al. 2011:144, 152 [ref. 31271], Shinohara et al. 2011:47 [ref. 31715], Shinohara et al. 2014:256 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:315 [ref. 33547], Orr et al. 2015:320 [ref. 33959], Orr et al. 2019:22 [ref. 38839], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:209 [ref. 39115]). Current status: Valid as Careproctus acanthodes Gilbert & Burke 1912. Liparidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Japan Sea (Tatar Stait) and Okhotsk Sea. Habitat: marine.